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This isn’t a coup by an authoritarian. It’s just another grift by a con man

By Timothy P. Carney
Published November 10, 2020 4:52pm ET
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This isn’t a coup by an authoritarian. It’s just another grift by a con man
FILE- In this May 23, 2005 file photo, real estate mogul and Reality TV star Donald Trump, left, listens as Michael Sexton introduces him at a news conference in New York where he announced the establishment of Trump University. One day after Trump accepted the Republican nomination for president of the United States, his lawyers will be in court to try to get a lawsuit dismissed alleging that the business mogul defrauded customers who took courses with false promises of teaching success in real estate at the now-defunct Trump University. Lawyers for Trump will appear Friday, July 22, 2016, before U.S. District Judge Gonzalo Curiel to argue that a lawsuit against the nominee lacks merit. | (Bebeto Matthews/AP)

President Trump is not an authoritarian or a dictator, and his claims that he really won the election are not a coup attempt.

No. Trump is a con man, and his insistence that he can overturn the election is his latest grift.

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